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Daniel Chapman • writer • #LUFC things • Leedsista

📘 100 Years of Leeds United, 1919-2019
🎬 Do You Want to Win?
🎙️ was at The Square Ball
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By rights and status #LUFC are the team that should be aspiring to Egil Olsen's 1990s blueprints, tyvm.

All we need is a 6ft 4in Norwegian striker available for less than £45m, if anyone knows of one going?

Tore André Flo, we had you, but never knew how much we needed you!
Leeds United 0-4 Arsenal: Styling it out
The biggest intrigue of the day was Daniel Farke, managing to simultaneously stir the pots marked 'transfer window' and 'department of unreliable goalkeepers'. And just why did every Norwegian goalkeeper sign for Spurs in the 1990s, anyway?
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February 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
The biggest intrigue of the day was Daniel Farke, managing to simultaneously stir the pots marked 'transfer window' and 'department of unreliable goalkeepers'. And just why did every Norwegian goalkeeper sign for Spurs in the 1990s, anyway?

About #LUFC vs Arsenal:

www.leedsista.com/le...
February 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Time once more for:

The Tomáš Skuhravý #LUFC MRI scan Theory of Everything

'All hell broke loose. The interpreter barged into the room and, despite attempts by the staff to stop her, she dragged Skuhravý from the scanner. Then they both scarpered.'

www.leedsista.com/fotherby-on-...
February 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Chapman's studs met Seaman's groin, and while Strachan was yelling at him, Arsenal's physio was trying to work out where the blood was coming from.

His punctured scrotum, as it turned out.

"Gordon was like ‘Oh, sorry, big man’," says Seaman.

#LUFC vs Arsenal, 92/93
Rupture: Leeds United vs Arsenal, 21st November 1992
It was one of those Elland Road afternoons when the intensity of the crowd is matched by the intent of the players. Leeds were showing they wouldn't sit back against the team coming for their title.
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January 31, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Although the later arrivals of Duberry, Mills et al made Danny Granville seem like exactly the sort of #LUFC player David O'Leary was shopping for, George Graham had brought him in.

And before long every player Graham had signed was sold.
Danny Granville ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Although the later arrivals of Duberry, Mills et al made Danny Granville seem like exactly the sort of player David O'Leary was shopping for, George Graham had brought him in. And before long every player Graham had signed was sold.
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January 30, 2026 at 5:04 PM
"I've got to be careful," said tight-lipped MD Bill Fotherby.

But —

"I'm very happy with the way things have gone and very hopeful the player will be at Elland Road. We are aiming to sign one of the best strikers in Europe, and it will be a record-breaking deal."

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January 29, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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Was this thing really going to be mounted on the East Stand, printed atop letterheads communicating transfer bids, or messages of condolence?

It even looked misplaced when mocked up on a football shirt.

The #LUFC salute crest, 2018-2018
Leedsista Libre
A podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds United, the film Do You Want to Win?, and of loads of things at The Square Ball, where I was also editing the magazine for yonks and talking on the TSB Podcast for years. I've been reading my writing out loud for subscribers since 2017, and this podcast feed will dip weekly into the archives to republish some of those recordings for free. To keep up with my new week-by-week writing about our intensely daft football club, please visit Leedsista.com.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:07 AM
A manager is entitled, after much thought, to leave the players who kept a clean sheet last week out there on the pitch and expect them to keep doing their jobs, i.e., not conceding to Thierno Barry.

But #LUFC did concede:
Everton 1-1 Leeds United: Trust against Barry
A manager is entitled, after much thought, to leave the players who kept a clean sheet last week out there on the pitch and expect them to keep doing their jobs, i.e., not conceding to Thierno Barry.
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January 28, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I wrote this about Barry Bannan being at #LUFC, in case anybody out there is racking their brains for the details

Best bit was proving his Twitter account was really his. In 2011 people hadn't learned not to hold up easily editable pieces of paper!

www.leedsista.com/barry-bannan...
January 28, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Everything seemed set for success, his way, with an ambitious club with a family ethos that would pay him handsomely.

Nobody can say for sure why #LUFC manager Don Revie, in the end, didn't go to Everton.
Yellow car in Liverpool: what was Don Revie looking for in Everton?
Everything seemed set for success, his way, with an ambitious club with a family ethos that would pay him handsomely. Nobody can say for sure why Don Revie, in the end, didn't go to Everton.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Everton are the subject, but football is the theme in 1968 BBC play 'The Golden Vision'.

Birth, marriage, sex, work, death, religion and salvation in the hereafter.

Football has beaten down and replaced them all.
The Golden Vision, something better you can do
Birth, marriage, sex, work, death, religion and salvation in the hereafter. Football has beaten down and replaced them all. But when this film interweaves interviews with Everton's actual players, such consuming football passion turns ominous.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Everton are the subject, but football is the theme in 1968 BBC play 'The Golden Vision'.

Birth, marriage, sex, work, death, religion and salvation in the hereafter.

Football has beaten down and replaced them all.
The Golden Vision, something better you can do
Birth, marriage, sex, work, death, religion and salvation in the hereafter. Football has beaten down and replaced them all. But when this film interweaves interviews with Everton's actual players, such consuming football passion turns ominous.
www.leedsista.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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Kevin Blackwell was not the right manager for nurturing the kind of young talent #LUFC had, back in the O'Leary era, made a habit of bringing in — of whom Dan Harding was the last hurrah.

The Leedsista A-Z series is now into the Ds
Dan Harding ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Kevin Blackwell was not the right manager for nurturing the kind of young talent Leeds had, back in the early days of the David O'Leary era, made a habit of bringing in, of whom Dan Harding was the last hurrah.
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January 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Kevin Blackwell was not the right manager for nurturing the kind of young talent #LUFC had, back in the O'Leary era, made a habit of bringing in — of whom Dan Harding was the last hurrah.

The Leedsista A-Z series is now into the Ds
Dan Harding ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Kevin Blackwell was not the right manager for nurturing the kind of young talent Leeds had, back in the early days of the David O'Leary era, made a habit of bringing in, of whom Dan Harding was the last hurrah.
www.leedsista.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Getting on for ten years since Massimo Cellino said he’d sorted GFH at #LUFC, GFH are continuing to take a different view

www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/ne...
Former Leeds United owner seeks winding-up order against Massimo Cellino | TheBusinessDesk.com
Exclusive: Liquidation threat for Yorkshire company months after Brescia bankruptcy
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January 23, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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'If that's how he wants to be remembered, as a crap player that people hate, that's up to Steve Morison.'

You can also read this #LUFC oldie, and lots of oldies and newies by email —

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Leeds United 3-4 Millwall: Write Your Own Legend
If this was the start of something, we'll look back at these twenty minutes as the origin story, the moment when Thomas Christiansen's Leeds finally declared an end to giving in to adversity.
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January 22, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Free podcast | Leedsista Libre

From January of 2017/18 — Lasogga didn't need to get in the box, and for a moment Felix Wiedwald was my new Bremner.

Relive #LUFC 3-4 Millwall, and Steve Morison at his stupidest:
Leedsista Libre
A podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds United, the film Do You Want to Win?, and of loads of things at The Square Ball, where I was also editing the magazine for yonks and talking on the TSB Podcast for years. I've been reading my writing out loud for subscribers since 2017, and this podcast feed will dip weekly into the archives to republish some of those recordings for free. To keep up with my new week-by-week writing about our intensely daft football club, please visit Leedsista.com.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Free podcast | Leedsista Libre

From January of 2017/18 — Lasogga didn't need to get in the box, and for a moment Felix Wiedwald was my new Bremner.

Relive #LUFC 3-4 Millwall, and Steve Morison at his stupidest:
Leedsista Libre
A podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds United, the film Do You Want to Win?, and of loads of things at The Square Ball, where I was also editing the magazine for yonks and talking on the TSB Podcast for years. I've been reading my writing out loud for subscribers since 2017, and this podcast feed will dip weekly into the archives to republish some of those recordings for free. To keep up with my new week-by-week writing about our intensely daft football club, please visit Leedsista.com.
podfollow.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Midway through the first half Radebe tried passing square across his back line, gave the ball straight to Yeboah, and watched open-mouthed as Yeboah ran through on goal.

#LUFC at AFCON 1996: Lucas Radebe versus Tony Yeboah
AFCON 1996: Lucas Radebe versus Tony Yeboah
Midway through the first half Radebe tried passing square across his back line, gave the ball straight to Yeboah, and watched open-mouthed as Yeboah ran through on goal. Was Tony distracted, even momentarily, by a thought of sympathy, a twinge of pity for his friend?
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January 21, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Hands in my pockets cos it was freezing

Here's one of my bits from Adam Pope's excellent documentary about how close Don Revie came to leaving #LUFC for Everton in 1973

You can listen to the whole thing here, great story well told and great archive audio:

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January 21, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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Wrote about #LUFC playing in Trofeo Kenwood back in '93 for
@thesquareball.net Issue 05.

Come for Wilko's beret, stay for Fotherby's trilby.

thesquareball.net/leeds-united...
One Night Stand • The Square Ball
In the middle of a wretched title defence, Leeds ushered in the New Year of 1993 by flying to Italy to face two teams in one night.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:05 PM
There was nothing low-key about anyone's celebrations, and why not?

#LUFC hadn't just waited a long time for this goal, they'd worked a long time for it, ever since Gabriel Gudmundsson scored the other way down London.
Leeds United 1-0 Fulham: A place in the scene
There was nothing low-key about anyone's celebrations, and why not? Leeds hadn't just waited a long time for this goal, they'd worked a long time for it, ever since Gabriel Gudmundsson scored the other way down London.
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January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
It’s like Lee Sharpe to Sampdoria all over again

ie he looks ace in their kit and may/may not be playing for Bradford next season
January 19, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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Terry Yorath said he owed everything to the grounding Revie and Collins gave him at #LUFC, but those were values of people who'd grown up in wartime.

Yorath was a product of his own, changing, times.

To move on, he had to be allowed to forget some of what he'd been taught.
Terry Yorath
Yorath said he owed everything to the grounding Revie and Collins gave him at Leeds, but those were the values of people who'd grown up in wartime. Yorath was a product of his own times, times that were moving quickly. To move on, he had to be allowed to forget some of what he'd been taught.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Terry Yorath said he owed everything to the grounding Revie and Collins gave him at #LUFC, but those were values of people who'd grown up in wartime.

Yorath was a product of his own, changing, times.

To move on, he had to be allowed to forget some of what he'd been taught.
Terry Yorath
Yorath said he owed everything to the grounding Revie and Collins gave him at Leeds, but those were the values of people who'd grown up in wartime. Yorath was a product of his own times, times that were moving quickly. To move on, he had to be allowed to forget some of what he'd been taught.
www.leedsista.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:04 PM